Legal Opinion
Kentucky Fried Chicken Corporation v. Diversified Packaging Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided March 25, 1977No. 74-3060PublishedCited by 247 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge:
This case presents us with something mundane, something novel, and something bizarre. The mundane includes commercial law issues now well delimited by precedent. The novel aspects of the case center on intriguing and difficult interrelationships between trademark and antitrust concepts. And the bizarre element is the facially implausible — some might say unappetizing— contention that the man whose chicken is “finger-lickin’ good” has unclean hands.
Kentucky Fried Chicken Corporation, a franchisor of fast-food restaurants, brought this action claiming that defendants…
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